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Descriptive Camera Only Prints Text, Proves Pictures Are Not Really Worth a Thousand Words
A few years ago we featured PhotoSketch (now called Sketch2Photo), a program that can turn sketches with labels into a picture. Here’s something nearly opposite of that: a camera that outputs a text description of the image instead of the image itself. It’s like Instagram for bookworms.
Inventor Matt Richardson…
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This Camera Doesn't Take Pictures. It Describes Them.
The "Descriptive Camera" doesn't work the way an ordinary point-and-shoot does. Instead, this contraption prints out a description of the photo you take, rather than the image itself. Read Post
Descriptive Camera shuns photos for text images
The Descriptive Camera spits out an image in text form. (Credit: Matt Richardson) A picture may be worth a thousand words, but Matt Richardson has figured out how to make 20 words worth a picture. Richardson is the creator of the De... Read Post
Descriptive Camera prints out descriptions of pictures, not pictures themselves
Matt Richardson's "Descriptive Camera" sends your pictures to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and jobs out the task of writing a brief description of each image, then outputs the text on a thermal printer. It's a camera that captures descr... Read Post